When their distant parents send 14-year-old Violette and her siblings to the country for the summer, she discovers the meaning of freedom.

This summer is like every other: Violette’s parents are too broke and busy to take their kids on vacation. So she and her siblings ‒ Brune, 17, Paul, 16, and Elise, 6 ‒ have no choice but to spend it by themselves in their mother’s hometown, a tiny place in the middle of nowhere. Far from their harried mother and unstable father, the four children rediscover freedom, and Violette discovers something entirely new when she meets, Bosco, a boy her age always riding his moped down the sunny paths. A beautiful coming-of-age novel suffused with sunlight and the quiet chirping of birds and crickets, featuring the thrill of first love, conflicted parent-child relationships, and deep sibling bonds.